Cover Page

Table of Contents

Abstract

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Essay

Brief History

Gila River

Granada

Heart Mountain

Jerome

Manzanar

Minidoka

Poston

Rohwer

Topaz

Tule Lake

Isolation Centers

Add'l Facilities

Assembly Centers

DoJ and US Army Facilities

Prisons

References

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites by J. Burton, M. Farrell, F. Lord, and R. Lord

Chapter 9 (continued)
Minidoka Relocation Center

Outlying Features

The relocation center landfill, north of the residential area, consists of a large partially filled pit. Abundant remains there include many Japanese ceramics, a "Coke" bottle fragment from Fresno, California, and numerous smashed trash cans (Figures 9.20 and 9.21). Also present in the landfill vicinity is material apparently deposited after the abandonment of the relocation center, including building debris from field clearing, recently dumped trash, and a stripped vehicle. Some digging in the landfill by bottle collectors was apparent.

Figure 9.20. Minidoka Relocation Center landfill.

Figure 9.21. Japanese ceramics at the Minidoka Relocation Center landfill.

The fields and canals made by the evacuees are still in use today. Basalt boulder and concrete "drops" constructed by the evacuees on the canal that supplied the relocation center farm fields are still in excellent condition (Figures 9.22 and 9.23). The farm workers mess hall and the hog and chicken farms are now cultivated fields.

Figure 9.22. Canal drop under construction. (from Minidoka Interlude 1943)

Figure 9.23. One of seven canal drops at the Minidoka Relocation Center today.

To the south of the relocation center, at the crossing of State Highway 25 and the Idaho Short Line Railroad is the railroad siding and warehouse area depicted on WRA blueprints. The area is overgrown with vegetation and covered with abundant 1950s and 1960s trash. However, the grade of the railroad spur and a leveled loading area are still apparent. Coal destined for the relocation center was apparently off-loaded onto trucks here, since copious amounts of coal residue cover the area.

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